occasion to acknowledge the assistance of the same capable hand which supplied much of the war data for both of his previous volumes. NEW YORK CITY, _July 1st, 1864._ CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. A June Morning of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-three--Glimpses of West Philadelphia--The Days before Gettysburgh--The Two on the Piazza--Margaret Hayley and Elsie Brand--An Embrace and a Difference--Foreshadowings of Carlton Brand, Brother and Lover 29 CHAPTER II. The Coming of Carlton Brand--Almost a Paladin of Balaclava--Brother and Sister--A Spasm of Shame--The Confession--The Coward--How Margaret Hayley heard Many Words not intended for her--The Rupture and the Separation 45 CHAPTER III. Kitty Hood and her School-house--Dick Compton going Soldiering--A Lover's Quarrel, a bit of Jealousy, and a Threat--How Dick Compton met his supposed Rival--An Encounter, Sudden Death, and Kitty Hood's terrible Discovery 61 CHAPTER IV. The Residence of the Brands--Robert Brand and Dr. Pomeroy--Radical and Copperhead--A passage-at-arms that ended in a Quarrel--Elspeth Graeme the Housekeeper--The Shadow of Shame--Father and Daughter--The falling of a parent's Curse 81 CHAPTER V. The Birth and Blood of the Brands--Pride that came down from the Crusades--Robert Brand as Soldier and Pension-Agent--How Elsie raved, and how the Father's Curse seemed to be answered--Dr. James Holton, and the loss of a Corpus Delicti 99 CHAPTER VI. The Residence of Dr. Pomeroy--Nathan Bladesden and Eleanor Hill--A kneeling Woman and a rigid Quaker--The ruin that a Letter had wrought--A Parting that seemed eternal--Carlton Brand alive once more, and a Glance at the fatal Letter 120 CHAPTER VII. A return to 1856--Nicholas Hill, Iron-merchant--His Death, his Daughter, and his Friend--How Dr. Pomeroy became a Guardian and how he Discharged that duty--A ruin and an awakening--The market value of Dunderhaven Stock in 1858 137 CHAPTER VIII. What followed the revelation of Betrayal--A gleam of Hope for Eleanor Hill--A relative from California, a projected Voyage, and a Disappointment--One more Letter--The broken thread resumed--Carlton Brand's farewell, and an Elopement 164 CHAPTER IX. Dr. Pomeroy's purposed Pursuit--A plain Quaker who used very plain Language--Almost a Fight--How Mrs. Burton Hayley consoled her Daughter, and how Margaret revealed the Past--A Compact--Dr. Pomeroy's Canine Adventure--Old Elspeth once more--A Search that found Nothing. 174 CHAPTER X.